19 h. ago Demi Adejuyigbe: ‘Everything I do is because of my love for Ocean’s Eleven’

The comedian and TV writer on a cringeworthy moment with Charli xcx, his viral September videos, and why we should forgive Don Cheadle’s cockney accentGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn 21 September each year between 2016 and 2021, you made a series of increasingly elaborate tributes to the Earth, Wind and Fire song September that were viewed millions of times. Do you hate that song now?I do feel stressed whenever I hear September, but I try to ignore it. A few years ago, before the last video came out, I had a panic attack at a Home Depot simply by imagining that it came on. That’s when I was like, I gotta stop doing this – I don’t think I enjoy it any more. I made people think I really love that song. It was just a fun idea. I don’t want people to feel bad for me. I was hoist by my own petard. I’m the one who made it a thing! Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Voices: Oh dear, m’lud: It’s never a good idea to call people Nazis if they are not Nazis

The attorney general Lord Harmer has compared the rise of Reform to 1930s Germany – and it’s not only a mistake but a sign that Labour may be losing its battle with Nigel Farage, writes John Rentoul

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1 week ago The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to

There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics‘The boys are alt-right.” This seems to be the new consensus on far-right politics propagated in numerous articles and podcasts. But the media’s obsessive focus on the young men allegedly fuelling the rise of the far right isn’t just empirically flawed – it misses a much more significant shift in public opinion among young people. While many surveys show a large gender gap in support of far-right parties and policies, it is young women who stand out as the more politically interesting demographic, as they are turning in ever greater numbers towards the left.The idea that young people in general, and young men in particular, disproportionately support the far right has been around for a while. In a classic 2012 study, the German political scientist Kai Arzheimer characterised the “typical” voter of far-right parties in Europe as “male, young(ish), of moderate educatio...

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1 week ago The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde

There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics‘The boys are alt-right.” This seems to be the new consensus on far-right politics propagated in numerous articles and podcasts. But the media’s obsessive focus on the young men allegedly fuelling the rise of the far right isn’t just empirically flawed – it misses a much more significant shift in public opinion among young people. While many surveys show a large gender gap in support of far-right parties and policies, it is young women who stand out as the more politically interesting demographic, as they are turning in ever greater numbers towards the left.The idea that young people in general, and young men in particular, disproportionately support the far right has been around for a while. In a classic 2012 study, the German political scientist Kai Arzheimer characterised the “typical” voter of far-right parties in Europe as “male, young(ish), of moderate educatio...

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2 w. ago Virgin Island on Channel 4 review: is watching people hump on TV anybody's idea of a good time?

Nobody wants to remember their first times; on Virgin Island, 12 people are being asked to immortalise theirs on national television, inconvenient boners and all

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3 w. ago Top doctor reveals five sneaky things people have no idea cause cancer

Dr Mikkael Sekeres, the Chief of Hematology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Florida, revealed the five everyday habits that may raise the risk of certain forms of cancer.

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3 w. ago People who take antidepressants are only just finding out about a common summer side effect

A lot of people taking the medication say they had no idea

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3 w. ago Are you a people pleaser? It’s time to find out what you really want

It’s easy to go through life mirroring what others want and how they see you. But don’t you deserve more?Many of us tend to diminish ourselves and others with some snappy, reductive phrase rather than dig more deeply in search of understanding. Enter the idea of the “people pleaser”. The term has a ring to it; it rolls off the tongue and its meaning seems self-evident. It feels comfortable and anodyne. We know where we are with a people pleaser.But do we really? I hadn’t taken the time to think about it until recently. And the more I did, the more I found the phrase, and the possible unconscious dynamics reduced by it, discomfiting and disturbing. It took several years of psychoanalysis for me to be able to see more clearly what my tendency for people pleasing was hiding, and what I saw did not please me at all. What I saw was not anodyne. I saw that at the core of me, where something real and solid should be, sat a mirror, reflecting whatever I thought others wanted to see. Continu...

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last month ‘Laughable, if it weren’t so dangerous’: your responses to RFK Jr’s autism stance

After the US health secretary called for autistic people to be tracked, readers rebuked the idea that ASD is a tragedyWhen Robert F Kennedy Jr announced a major project to track the health of people with autism, autistic people and their friends and families reacted with shock and anger.They also expressed dismay and concern over the US health secretary’s incorrect and “weird” approach to autism spectrum disorder. Continue reading...

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